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• Results of ITMO University’s Admissions Campaign 2020

  …f them are graduates of other universities.  The ratio of first priority applications was 1.67 (1.5 in 2019). 172 students were enrolled in fee-based positions (all admission orders will be published later). 742 students will start their Master’s program without entrance exams: these are winners of portfolio and report competitions, winners and medalists of …

  01.09.2020

• From the Peter and Paul Fortress to Five Corners: a quick guide to St. Petersburg for First-Year Students

  …rees. The Planetarium Here, you can watch the stars, take a virtual intergalactic flight, visit an observatory, a laboratory of entertaining experiments or a hall of illusions, and understand all the delights of a panoramic view of the ocean floor or an ice continent. Moreover, the Planetarium has a “horizon” space, where meetings with scientists and film scree…

  01.09.2020

• ITMO University Avatar Project is Now in Beta Testing

  … applications were submitted. During the first phase of testing, 30 of the applicants will take part in it, and all the others will be able to give feedback on the upgraded versions of the app in November. The first 30 volunteers will be engaged in two-stage research. At first, there will be a supervised experiment at the Center of Usability and Mixed Reality, dur…

  01.09.2020

• New Semester: Thoughts, Opinions, and Expectations of ITMO Family

  … I have lots of plans besides my course load. Most of them are bound up with activities at the OLIMP union, an inspiring community of makers, tech lovers, artists, and just passionate people. My primary focus this semester is going to be the work on Do-It-Yourself microcontroller projects, such as phone-controlled IoT lighting for photographers. Moreover, I am going …

  01.09.2020

• Door Into the Future: ITMO’s Academic Council Meeting at ITMO Highpark

  …onal presentation of reports, but a dialogue that included every participant.  Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s First Vice Rector, presented the image of the university and a global vision of its development until 2030. She noted that due to the pandemic, universities all over the world had to adapt to the “new normal”. The market of educational services and research activit…

  31.08.2020

• ITMO University Scientists Develop a Tool for Wireless Charging of Multiple Devices

  …hat it can be used as a table or a nightstand functioning as a big charger. “As it turned out, this structure has unique properties, including reverse frequency dispersion that can be efficiently applied in wireless power transfer,” explains Polina Kapitanova. “This structure has several modes (resonant frequencies) that have a uniform magnetic field. It all…

  31.08.2020

• New Library for Dimensionality Reduction ITMO_FS

  …Lack of algorithms One of the key challenges in machine learning is dimensionality reduction. Data scientists reduce the number of features by isolating the values among them ​​that have the greatest impact on the result. After this, machine learning models require less memory, work faster and better. The example below shows that eliminating duplicate features inc…

  31.08.2020

• Song of the Month: August 2020

  …– emotional, eventful, and social. And here came long-awaited parties, one of those you think you can dance all night, but get tired by 1 am. To my surprise, a four-month seclusion in a music bubble of comforting and personal songs made me kind of indifferent to dancing to loud beats and sharp rhythms. Looking for something mutual and moving, my friends and I turned …

  28.08.2020

• ITMO Graduate Oksana Ivanova on Master's Program in Bioinformatics

  …–  the symbiosis of biology and mathematics was the best choice for me. After all, by that time you had already worked at the Almazov Center, how did they react to your decision to do a Master’s? Extremely positively. Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing area, but at the same time in Russia it is still less advanced than it should be. In particular, the Almaz…

  28.08.2020

• Experiments with Bioplastic and DNA Visualization: Bioart Summer School at ITMO University

  …h materials they make use of.  “At the first lecture, we spoke about what bioart and biodesign are,” explains Laura Rodriguez, “bioart is a field of art, it is self-expression and has to do with philosophy. Biodesign is more about industrialization and the use of new biomaterials.” DNA, tea fungus and mycelium  Later on, the school’s participants acq…

  27.08.2020